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Topic: LAT Thu. 7/16 Jack McInturff (Read 1746 times)

This puzzle was interesting not so much for its theme or creative clues, though there were two good ones: "Call from the flock" for AMEN and "Quasimodo's 'our'" for NOTRE [from The Hunchbck of Notre Dame]. Some of the orthography was unusual:TNPK instead of the more familiar TPK for turnpike.UPSA-daisy instead of "upsy-daisy."PTUI for "Spittoon user's sound." [I confess that my reading of 19th Century English and American literature has not prepared me for this echoic term.]

I wonder why Jack chose "On a slant: Abbr." for OBL [oblique]. Osama Bin Laden's initials often appear in news headlines, which, oddly, are often oblique in their slant.